Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

sweet flag

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.41 in modern English

Syllables: sweet- flag
IPA

16

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A perennial wetland plant, Acorus calamus, with an aromatic medicinal root, formerly used to strew floors.

Inflected Forms

sweet flags (plural)

Synonyms

calamus muskrat root sway sweet calamus myrtle flag flagroot acorus calamus

Questions

What does sweet flag mean?: A perennial wetland plant, Acorus calamus, with an aromatic medicinal root, formerly used to strew floors.

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